Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse VI · §35 · John Wesley

The kingdom of glory

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For this also we pray in those words, Your kingdom come. We pray for the coming of his everlasting kingdom, the kingdom of glory in heaven, which is the continuation and perfection of the kingdom of grace on earth. Consequently this, as well as the preceding petition, is offered up for the whole intelligent creation, who are all interested in this grand event, the final renovation of all things, by God's putting an end to misery and sin, to infirmity and death, taking all things into his own hands, and setting up the kingdom which endures throughout all ages.

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For this also we pray in those words, Thy kingdom come: we pray for the coming of his everlasting kingdom, the kingdom of glory in heaven, which is the continuation and perfection of the kingdom of grace an earth. Consequently this, as well as the preceding petition, is offered up for the whole intelligent creation, who are all interested in this grand event, the final renovation of all things, by God’s putting an end to misery and sin, to infirmity and death, taking all things into his own hands, and setting up the kingdom which endureth throughout all ages.

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The sixth sermon on the Sermon on the Mount, on Matthew 6:1-15: giving and praying in secret, the Lord's Prayer, and a pure intention in all we do.

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Sermon 26 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 6:1-15.

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